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Climate Change

COP30 technologies: The same false promises, again

Narasimha Reddy Donthi

14 Jan 2026

6 min read

The urgency is not finding clever technologies to sustain unsustainable systems but building systems enabling human flourishing within planetary boundaries

Conference of the Parties (COP)

Live from COP30 Belem

COP30 technologies: The same false promises, again

COP30, climate justice, and the future of agriculture in India

Live from COP30 Belem

COP30 technologies: The same false promises, again

COP30, climate justice, and the future of agriculture in India

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states — here’s what to watch for in 2026

What COP30 attendees ate and why it matters for climate action

Why green industrialisation can no longer sit outside climate talks

What was it like being at COP30 in Belém? Reflections from a first-time observer

Why global environmental negotiations keep failing — and what we can do about it

COP 29

COP30: What was discussed on climate finance in week one at Belem?

Baku to Belem Roadmap to $ 1.3 trillion: Key report on climate finance released ahead of summit

UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2025 warns of deepening crisis as Jamaica reels from Hurricane Melissa

Climate finance faultline looms over COP30: Developed countries’ obligations to dominate Belém talks

COP 28

Africa’s top climate change challenges: A fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds

Bonn Climate Conference 2025: Diverging views stall UAE Dialogue on implementing Global Stocktake outcomes

WHO renews call on India to join COP28 climate health pledge amid severe Delhi pollution

A landmark decision

COP 27

COP28: A key negotiation highlights countries’ challenges with scaling up mitigation ambition

Wealthy nations wrestle over seats on Loss and Damage Board, causing delays in fully operationalising Fund

Funding Loss & Damage: Differences persist as COP28 looms

Libya floods 2023: Why the Loss and Damage fund should be operationalised equitably

COP 26

International Court of justice’s climate ruling may have mixed impacts for India: Experts

DTE Exclusive: Adaptation Fund head ‘discouraged & worried’ on not receiving adequate funds at COP28

COP28 Recap: What was discussed at the Mitigation Work Programme?

Climate action: Meet to approve IPCC Synthesis Report begins in Switzerland

COP 25

Centre constitutes committee for implementation of 2015 Paris Agreement

Climate Emergency CoP 25: A failure on key deliverables

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Decent outcome on 2020 Ambition

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Madrid, the longest CoP ever, ends in disappointment

COP 24

When did CO2 become our planet's arch enemy?

Getting Amazon to pay its taxes could be Jeff Bezos’ biggest climate action

Climate Emergency CoP 25: New proposal by CoP Presidency will undermine next round of climate targets

Climate Emergency CoP 25: UN member states continue to default on payments

COP 23

COP27: Agriculture finally on table; beware of greenwashing though, warn experts

BASIC ministers pledge support for robust and fair rule book on Paris Agreement

Push for gender equality at COP23, Gender Action Plan adopted

Climate negotiations and the invisible hand of carbon chaos

COP 22

Climate-induced loss and damage continues to be neglected globally

Muted presence

Cabinet gives nod to ratify Doha amendment of Kyoto Protocol

Countries will move forward on climate change even without Trump’s support: US envoy

COP 21

COP28 Recap: What was finally decided in the Global Stocktake?

Temperatures crossed 1.5°C for the whole of 2023; last month hottest January on record, say EU scientists

Four agreements signed at meet organised by International Solar Alliance

Summary of Side Event

COP 20

Factsheet: What to expect at Peru

‘India could achieve its 2030 climate targets’

No action, just a war of words at COP 21

India’s climate strategy needs revision

COP 19

Parties to CITES urged to take stringent steps on jaguar, big cat conservation

Pau Brasil: CITES COP19 rejects proposal to include Brazil’s national tree in Appendix I

Simply Put: Race to extinction

CITES COP19 proposes budget of $150,000 for Big Cat Task Force

COP 18

Stocktaking by CoP18 President, December 7, 2012

CoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowhere

Doha Getaway: World on line for new regime, US on track to escape

Doha outcome adopted. US reserves its right to walk out later

COP 17

CITES COP19 urges parties to remove references to pangolins from ‘official pharmacopoeia’

Of stances, tactics and country positions

India's agenda on the table at Durban

The final outcome of the Durban Conference on Climate Change

COP 16

DTE Coverage: How CBD COP16 unfolded

Towards a fair share